Maya Visser

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Maya Visser is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maya Visser has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Maya Visser's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (8 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (6 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 papers). Maya Visser is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (8 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (6 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 papers). Maya Visser collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Maya Visser's co-authors include Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Elizabeth Jefferies, Karl V. Embleton, Krist A. Noonan, Richard J. Binney, Geoff J.M. Parker, Gina F. Humphreys, Paul Hoffman, César Ávila and Amanda Kaas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NeuroImage and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Maya Visser

17 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Going beyond Inferior Prefrontal Involvement in Semantic Control: Evidence for the Additional Contribution of Dorsal Angular Gyrus and Posterior Middle Temporal Cortex

2013 373 citations Krist A. Noonan, Elizabeth Jefferies et al. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maya Visser Spain	11	1.6k	459	352	336	156	18	1.7k
Zaizhu Han China	22	1.2k 0.8×	268 0.6×	251 0.7×	375 1.1×	149 1.0×	71	1.4k
Uwe Mattler Germany	17	1.8k 1.1×	212 0.5×	300 0.9×	170 0.5×	114 0.7×	43	2.0k
Alexandra Woolgar United Kingdom	23	1.6k 1.0×	197 0.4×	329 0.9×	219 0.7×	198 1.3×	54	1.8k
Luca Nanetti Netherlands	10	851 0.5×	445 1.0×	221 0.6×	111 0.3×	181 1.2×	15	1.1k
Tatiana T. Schnur United States	20	1.9k 1.2×	503 1.1×	443 1.3×	915 2.7×	108 0.7×	43	2.1k
Yulia Lerner Israel	17	1.5k 0.9×	261 0.6×	299 0.8×	137 0.4×	73 0.5×	34	1.6k
Qing Cai China	15	1.0k 0.6×	165 0.4×	207 0.6×	284 0.8×	90 0.6×	42	1.2k
Matthew W. Prull United States	13	1.7k 1.1×	225 0.5×	317 0.9×	603 1.8×	211 1.4×	21	1.9k
Gorana Pobric United Kingdom	22	1.9k 1.2×	860 1.9×	523 1.5×	412 1.2×	194 1.2×	43	2.2k
William L. Gross United States	15	809 0.5×	209 0.5×	173 0.5×	194 0.6×	92 0.6×	20	971

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18 of 18 papers shown

Palomar‐García, María‐Ángeles, et al.. (2025). Subjective sleep quality in healthy young adults moderates associations of sensitivity to punishment and reward with functional connectivity of regions relevant for insomnia disorder. Sleep Medicine. 131. 106527–106527. 2 indexed citations

Visser, Maya, et al.. (2025). Influence of the HPA Axis on Anxiety-Related Processes: An RDoC Overview Considering Their Neural Correlates. Current Psychiatry Reports. 27(10). 593–611. 1 indexed citations

Vives, Marc–Lluís, et al.. (2025). Reading fiction in a foreign language reduces the neural synchronization between semantic and emotional areas. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 1–12.

Costumero, Víctor, et al.. (2024). Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 19(1). 1 indexed citations

Visser, Maya, et al.. (2023). A Semantic Cognition Contribution to Mood and Anxiety Disorder Pathophysiology. Healthcare. 11(6). 821–821. 2 indexed citations

Visser, Maya, Cristina Forn, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, et al.. (2018). Evidence for degraded low frequency verbal concepts in left resected temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Neuropsychologia. 114. 88–100. 6 indexed citations

Jung, JeYoung, Maya Visser, Richard J. Binney, & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2018). Establishing the cognitive signature of human brain networks derived from structural and functional connectivity. Brain Structure and Function. 223(9). 4023–4038. 19 indexed citations

Visser, Maya, Cristina Forn, Asier Gómez‐Ibáñez, et al.. (2018). Accelerated long-term forgetting in resected and seizure-free temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Cortex. 110. 80–91. 11 indexed citations

Fernández, Luis Morís, Maya Visser, Noelia Ventura‐Campos, César Ávila, & Salvador Soto‐Faraco. (2015). Top-down attention regulates the neural expression of audiovisual integration. NeuroImage. 119. 272–285. 41 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Gina F., Paul Hoffman, Maya Visser, Richard J. Binney, & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2015). Establishing task- and modality-dependent dissociations between the semantic and default mode networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(25). 7857–7862. 139 indexed citations

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Barrós‐Loscertales, Alfonso, Noelia Ventura‐Campos, Maya Visser, et al.. (2013). Neural correlates of audiovisual speech processing in a second language. Brain and Language. 126(3). 253–262. 13 indexed citations

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Noonan, Krist A., Elizabeth Jefferies, Maya Visser, & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2013). Going beyond Inferior Prefrontal Involvement in Semantic Control: Evidence for the Additional Contribution of Dorsal Angular Gyrus and Posterior Middle Temporal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 25(11). 1824–1850. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kaas, Amanda, Hanneke I. Van Mier, Maya Visser, & Rainer Goebel. (2012). The neural substrate for working memory of tactile surface texture. Human Brain Mapping. 34(5). 1148–1162. 42 indexed citations

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Visser, Maya, Elizabeth Jefferies, Karl V. Embleton, & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2012). Both the Middle Temporal Gyrus and the Ventral Anterior Temporal Area Are Crucial for Multimodal Semantic Processing: Distortion-corrected fMRI Evidence for a Double Gradient of Information Convergence in the Temporal Lobes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24(8). 1766–1778. 275 indexed citations

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Visser, Maya & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2011). Differential Contributions of Bilateral Ventral Anterior Temporal Lobe and Left Anterior Superior Temporal Gyrus to Semantic Processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23(10). 3121–3131. 191 indexed citations

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Visser, Maya, Elizabeth Jefferies, & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2010). Semantic Processing in the Anterior Temporal Lobes:A Meta-analysis of the Functional. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2 indexed citations

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Visser, Maya, Karl V. Embleton, Elizabeth Jefferies, Geoff J.M. Parker, & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2010). The inferior, anterior temporal lobes and semantic memory clarified: Novel evidence from distortion-corrected fMRI. Neuropsychologia. 48(6). 1689–1696. 149 indexed citations

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Visser, Maya, Elizabeth Jefferies, & Matthew A. Lambon Ralph. (2009). Semantic Processing in the Anterior Temporal Lobes: A Meta-analysis of the Functional Neuroimaging Literature. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22(6). 1083–1094. 467 indexed citations

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